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Gerome Breen @psychgenomics.bsky.social · May 26

Group poster today from @jaredgm.bsky.social on genetics of perinatal depression. Jared is a DepGenAfrica postdoc - he is looking for collaborators with African PND data also. Visit poster P018.085D today at 4pm! #eshg2025

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Marios Georgakis @mariosgeorgakis.bsky.social · Apr 24

Massive multi-ancestry GWAS resource for 1,167 clinical traits & diseases in 6 global biobanks (n=1,789,365)

👉29,139 locus-trait pairs
👉2,624 non-overlapping loci across the genome
👉associated with 6 traits each (median)
👉colocalization across traits for 72% of loci [1/3]

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Jordi Merino @jmerino.bsky.social · Apr 24

What does it take to launch a precision health study? A bold vision, an exceptional team, a supportive ecosystem, and perseverance!

We are proud to introduce the Danish Precision Health Initiative: a resource built to drive precision cardiometabolic health research for years to come. delphi.ku.dk

DELPHI

delphi.ku.dk

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 Applications open for the SMARTbiomed Summer School!
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩‍🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...

https://smartbiomed.dk/news-and-event…

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Aarhus Denmark has high quality of life, and consistently ranks as one of the best cities to live in the world happy-city-index.com (housing is more affordable than in Copenhagen 😉). Denmark has good funding opportunities in Academia. #AcademicSky #MedSky #HigherEd #academia #research #science

Happy City Index 2025

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Potential Main or Co-Supervisors include:

Naomi Wray (Oxford), Peter Visscher (Oxford), Erin Gabriel (KU), Preben B Mortensen (AU), @eagerbo.bsky.social
(AU), @privefl.bsky.social (AU), Thomas Gerds (KU), Julie Dreier (AU), and others.

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 25

There are 3+ postdocs positions available (for 3 years w possible 1-year extension). Research areas include:
- Genetic risk prediction
- Causal inference
- Machine learning applications
- Survival analysis

These are collaborative projects with researchers in Denmark and at University of Oxford.

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Multiple Postdoc Positions available in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or Statistical Genetics (deadline April 15)

Join an International team at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed, Aarhus, Denmark!
#Postdoc #Epidemiology #StatisticalGenetics #Biostatistics

👉 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdocs in Epidemiology or Statistical Genetics at The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Public Health - NCRR - National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Mar 18

I’m always happy to discuss the pros and cons of academic/neuroscience life in Denmark. Like any small European country there are some hurdles but it is overall an excellent place to be. We’re happy here.

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · Mar 12

We are seeking talented researchers for multiple postdoctoral positions in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or Statistical Genetics at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed at Aarhus University, Denmark. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdocs in Epidemiology or Statistical Genetics at The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Public Health - NCRR - National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 12

Yes this is ridiculous. Besides people that get fired or loose money on investments not buying cars, here in Europe Tesla has become the car of shame. Fortunately there are many other good EV options.

Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 11

The positions are based at Aarhus University, in Aarhus Denmark, but specific projects will be in collaboration researchers at Oxford University, the University of Copenhagen and other Danish research institutes. See more information on the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed here smartbiomed.dk

The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed

The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University and will be a collaboration of researchers from Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oxford.

smartbiomed.dk

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Mar 11

We're hiring Pioneer Fellow Postdocs!!

Join us at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed to develop innovative methods in epidemiology, biostatistics, and statistical genetics, working with big biomedical data.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

#StatGen #Epi #Postdoc #SMARTbiomed

Postdocs in Epidemiology or Statistical Genetics at The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Public Health - NCRR - National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Feb 2

EMGM2025 abstract deadline extended – 09/02 (final). Conference 8-9 April, Brest, France. Everything statistical and population genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics… Invited speakers: Céline Bon, Beatriz Cuyabano, Garrett Hellenthal. emgm2025.sciencesconf.org

53rd European Mathematical Genetics Meeting - Sciencesconf.org

emgm2025.sciencesconf.org

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Jan 26

He’s trying, and I worry it will destroy NATO. This crazy expansionist behavior is extremely scary, both for Europe and the world.

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Jan 24

ESHG Abstract Deadline Reminder!
The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)!

Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference!

Learn more at 2025.eshg.org

Please retweet.

#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025

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Joyce Kao @joyceykao.bsky.social · Dec 11

Would you like to chat about all things #OpenScience in the Swiss Alps? 😆🇨🇭

Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Dec 10

🎄 Day 10 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄

Applications are NOW OPEN for the Open Science Retreat 2025 in beautiful Beatenberg, Switzerland, April 13-17, 2025! 🌄✨

https://events.digital-research.academy/e/OSR25CH

#OpenScience #Retreat #Reboot #OSRCH25

Swiss alps with date and location information

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Stinus Lindgreen @stinuslindgreen.bsky.social · Jan 18

Den store Danmarks Indsamling starter i dag. Jaja, man kan byde på frokost, rundvisning osv. med folketingsmedlemmer - men man kan også opleve det aarhusianske dødsmetalband Livløs sammen med folketingets eneste heavy metal-ordfører 🤘 Tak til bandet for støtten #dkpol
www.lauritz.com/da/auction/k...

Lauritz.com - Online Auktioner

Køb og sælg kunst, design, antikviteter og meget mere.

www.lauritz.com

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Stinus Lindgreen @stinuslindgreen.bsky.social · Jan 16

Kort før jul lavede regeringen sammen med SF, LA, Danmarksdemokraterne og Konservative nogle småjusteringer af den dumme, dyre og dybt skadelige kandidatreform. Det er dog som et plaster på et åbent benbrud. Det skriver jeg om i @Altingetdk #dkpol

www.altinget.dk/forskning/ar...

De politiske småjusteringer løser ikke kandidatreformens kerneproblemer

På trods af de politiske småjusteringer af kandidatreformen, kommer den fortsat til at gøre stor skade i uddannelses- og forskningsmiljøer, skriver Stinus Lindgreen.

www.altinget.dk

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · Jan 14

Looking for a PhD position in statistical methods development for causality? Then we might be looking for you! jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/...

PhD fellowships in Biostatistics and Causal inference at the SMARTbiomed Pioneer centre

jobportal.ku.dk

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · Jan 14

The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed will leverage large-scale, multimodal biomedical data combined with focused innovation in statistical and computational methods including machine learning to advance our understanding, treatment, and prevention of human disease.
Learn more about us: smartbiomed.dk

The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed

The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University and will be a collaboration of researchers from Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oxford.

smartbiomed.dk

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jan 4

The scientist who is responsible for driving GLP-1 drugs for the treatment of obesity and testing them for prevention of Alzheimer's disease—Lotte Bjerre Knudsen— tells her story in a remarkable conversation. Full transcript, or video, all free, no ads.
erictopol.substack.com/p/lotte-bjer...

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: The Scientist Who Drove GLP-1 Drugs For Obesity and Alzheimer's

Facts, data, and analytics about biomedical matters.

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · Dec 11

Interesting work! By mapping many medical ontologies to the same embedding space we can go beyond the need of time-consuming data mapping and harmonization.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unified Clinical Vocabulary Embeddings for Advancing Precision Medicine

Integrating clinical knowledge into AI remains challenging despite numerous medical guidelines and vocabularies. Medical codes, central to healthcare systems, often reflect operational patterns shaped...

www.medrxiv.org

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FinnGen @finngen.bsky.social · Dec 5

Million Veteran Program & FinnGen teams are pleased to release v1 meta-analysis of MVP, FinnGen and UKBB GWAS data. This first version includes ~300 binary disease definitions across >1.5 M individuals.
Browse scans at: mvp-ukbb.finngen.fi

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